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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?
(a) Senses.
(b) Reason.
(c) Logic.
(d) Experience.

2. Which of the following describes why Kant saw beauty as objective?
(a) The judgments are of works of art.
(b) The judgments are not of substances, but merely of properties.
(c) The judgments are all false, as aesthetics do not truly exist.
(d) The judgments are correct appraisals of a unique interpretation.

3. In the ideal aesthetic case, what is one moved by?
(a) Raw sensory experience.
(b) The inner-workings of a mechanism.
(c) The properties of a substance.
(d) Perception of a person.

4. What type of religious arguments was Kant most interested in?
(a) Arguments against church's relevance.
(b) Arguments against God's existence.
(c) Arguments for church's relevance.
(d) Arguments given for God's existence.

5. To Kant, what was being free?
(a) Being able to have ideas.
(b) Being able to assess the self.
(c) Being able to understand paradox.
(d) Being able to obey one's reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do phenomena represent?

2. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?

3. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

4. What describes the third formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?

5. What is the name of the university Kant attended?

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